VonArx	Hope

Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6: Women - Laura VonArx, Northwest Nazarene (Jr., Hermiston, OR) posted a provisional NCAA Division II national qualifying mark in the triple jump as the Crusaders opened the 2009-10 indoor track season Saturday competing in the Jackson's Open at Nampa. VonArx placed third with a personal best leap of 37-9. That mark is the third longest indoor triple jump in GNAC history. She also finished second in the pentathlon with 2,726 points. Men - Maurus Hope, Northwest Nazarene (So., Adrian, OR) posted times of 7.20 in the 60 meters and 22.13 in the 200 in the Jackson's Open. His 60 time was .32 seconds off the provision national qualifying mark and is 200 time was .33 seconds slower than the national PNQ. He won the latter event.

Week of Dec. 7-13: Male - Brandon Pearce, Montana State Billings (Fr., Billings, MT) earned a GNAC automatic qualifying mark for the 60 meters and a provisional mark for the 200 as the Yellowjackets finished fourth in the Chadron State Shootout. Pearce's time of 6.65 in the 55 (converted to 7.14) betters the 60 automatic standard of 7.16. His 200 time of 23.23, is .09 seconds better than the provisional standard. Pearce's marks were among 10 provisional marks for MSUB in the meet. Female - None selected.

Week of Jan. 11-17: Male - Chad Meis, Seattle Pacific (Sr., Renton - Seattle Christian) posted a provisional national qualifying time in the mile at the UW Indoor Preview Saturday in the Dempsey Indoor. Meis was time in a school-record time of 4:11.39, moving into third place on the GNAC's all-time Top 10 Indoor List. Female - The Seattle Pacific Medley Relay team of Jane Larson (Sr., Fall City, WA - Cedar Park Christian), Crystal Sims (Jr., Portland, OR - Jefferson), Lisa Anderberg (Sr., Edmonds, WA - Kamiak) and Jessica Pixler (Sr., Sammamish, WA - Eastlake) chopped 6.01 seconds off the GNAC and SPU school record in winning the distance medley relay in an automatic national qualifying time of 11:32.23. That time would have placed second at last year's national meet.

Week of Jan. 18-24: Male – None selected. Female – Erika Halle, Montana State Billings (So., Manhattan, MT – Manhattan Christian) finished second in the 200 in an open indoor track and field meet at Montana State Friday posting a GNAC season-best time of 26.22. On the season, Halle ranks fifth in the conference in the long jump with a best of 16-7 and eighth in the 60 hurdles with a best of 9.96 (converted from a 55 hurdles time of 9.37).

Brown	Fischer	Pixler

Week of Jan. 25-31: Male – Ryan Brown, Western Washington (Jr., Bellingham, WA – Squalicum) and Tyler Fischer, Central Washington (Sr., Cashmere, WA). . .Brown set school and conference records and posted an automatic national qualifying mark in the pole vault in the UW Invitational Indoor track and field meet. Brown obliterated the old conference record winning the event with a mark of 17-1 ½. That was nearly seven inches better the NCAA Division II national automatic qualifying standard, and broke his own WWU and GNAC record of 16-6 set last year. He is the first GNAC athlete to clear 17 feet either indoor or outdoor. The outdoor record is 16-8 ¾ by Justin Miller of Humboldt State (2002). Brown’s mark currently ranks No. 1 nationally. . .Fischer finished sixth in the men’s weight throw with a provisional national qualifying toss of 58-4 ½. That mark ranks third in GNAC history. Female – Jessica Pixler, Seattle Pacific (Sr., Sammamish, WA – Eastlake) shattered her own Seattle Pacific and GNAC mark in the mile by more than four seconds cruising around the Dempsey Indoor oval in 4 minutes, 33.46 seconds on the way to an 11-second victory. Pixler's time beat the 4:37.83 she ran last Feb.14 in the Husky Classic. After battling an illness for the past two weeks, Pixler wasn't even sure she was going to run until she got up on Saturday morning. Not only did she run and set the school and GNAC records, the three-time defending D-2 indoor mile champion beat the NCAA Division II automatic qualifying standard of 4:54.00 by more than 20 seconds.

Week of Feb. 1-7: Male – Anthony Wright, Central Washington (Fr., Lakewood, WA – Lakes) won the 60 meters Saturday in the Runner's Soul Invitational at Moscow in a time of 6.96 after finishing second Friday in the Vandal Indoor in a time of 6.90, the second quickest in GNAC indoor history. Female – Katharine Lotze, Central Washington (Fr., Benton City – Kiona-Benton) and Terra Schumacher, Seattle Pacific (Jr., Sublimity, OR – Regis & MHCC). . .Lotze posted a provisional national qualifying mark in the women's triple jump at the Vandal Indoor in Moscow. Lotze had the sixth-best mark in GNAC history in posting a PNQ of 37-4 1/2. She finished third in the meet. Schumacher won the pole vault at the Portland Pilot Indoor with a provisional national qualifying vault of 11-6. That is the best mark in the conference this winter.

Tomsich	Warman

Week of Feb. 8-14: Male – Anthony Tomsich, Western Washington (Sr., Fairbanks, AK – West Valley) set school and GNAC records in the mile at the University of Washington Indoor Husky Classic Saturday at the Dempsey Indoor. Tomsich placed eighth in a time of 4:07.06, breaking the old GNAC record of 4:09.71 set by Nathan Carlson of Saint Martin's in 2005. He bettered the old WWU school record by six seconds. Female – Emily Warman, Western Washington (So., Sedro-Woolley, WA) established provisional national qualifying marks in both the long jump and triple jump in two separate meets at the University of Washington. On Saturday, she placed 13 th in the triple jump in the Husky Classic with a leap of 38-7. Warman is the defending NCAA Division II national champion, winning the event in 2009 with a GNAC-record mark of 39-3. On Sunday, she won the long jump at the UW Open with a provisional national qualifying mark of 18-9 ¾. Both her long jump and triple jump marks are the best in the conference this winter. Her LJ mark was just one-quarter inch short of her career-best, which ranks second in GNAC history.

Week of Feb. 22-28: Male – Matson Hardie, Western Oregon (Fr., Bend, OR) won both the triple jump and long jump in the Seattle Pacific Last-Chance Invitational with leaps of 47-11 ¾ and 22-6, respectively. He added 7 ½ inches to his previous provisional national qualifying mark in the triple jump recording the second longest leap in GNAC history. Female – Michelle Howe, Western Washington (Jr., Lakewood, WA) and Torrie Self, Central Washington (Jr., Kent, WA). . .Howe shaved .11 seconds off her provisional national qualifying time in winning the 60 hurdles in a time of 8.89 at the Seattle Pacific Last-Chance Invitational. Her time ranks second in GNAC history. She also ran on WWU's 4x400 relay team that was clocked in a GNAC-record time of 3:50.80, chopping 1.3 seconds off its previous provisional national qualifying time. . .Self won both the shot put (41-9 ¼) and weight throw (54-4) in the meet. Her weight throw met the provisional national standard and is the second longest in GNAC history.

Hewitt	Alvarez

Week of Mar. 1-7: Male – Ethan Hewitt, Alaska Anchorage (Fr., Eagle River, AK - Chugiak) set a GNAC record in winning the men's 400 meters in a time of 47.97 in the UNLV Track and Field Classic in Las Vegas Saturday. In his collegiate debut, Hewitt broke the old GNAC record of 48.11 set by Western Oregon's Ashtin Mott two years ago. Female – Amanda Alvarez, Seattle Pacific (Fr., Vancouver, WA – Columbia River) won the triple jump at the University of Puget Sound Invitational with a national provisional mark of 39-0 ¼. Alvarez's triple jump mark ranks second in GNAC history trailing only Alaska Anchorage's Kim Brady who went 39-3 3/4 in 2008.

Preston	Kipng'eno

Week of Mar. 8-14: Male – Demietrius Preston, UAA (Jr., Anchorage, AK - Service) won the long jump at the Northridge Invitational with a career-best leap of 24-6 ¼. Only two athletes have a better long jump in conference history. He also finished seventh in the 200 meters at Northridge with a GNAC season-best time of 22.17. Female – Miriam Kipng'eno, UAA (So., Eldoret, Kenya) won the 5,000 meters at the Occidental Distance Carnival in Los Angeles, becoming the fifth runner in GNAC history to run faster than 17 minutes. Her time of 16:59.24, which bettered the provisional national standard by more than 33 seconds, ranks fourth in conference history.